Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 49

Oh," says the fish, "do tell me what I have in my stomach, for it rattles about so, and keeps saying, 'Majnun, Majnun; I want Majnun.'"

Who acts: I, fish, Majnun · What happens: say, tell, have, rattle about, keep, want · To what, where: fish, me, stomach, Majnun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fish, Majnun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 tell	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 stomach	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 stomach	nmod:poss
17	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rattles	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 rattles	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rattles	nsubj
21	rattles	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	conj
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 so	advmod
23	so	so	ADV	_	21 rattles	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 keeps	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 keeps	cc
26	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 rattles	conj
27	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 keeps	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Majnun	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 Majnun	punct
30	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 saying	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Majnun	punct
32	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Majnun	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 want	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 want	nsubj
35	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
36	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 want	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 want	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 want	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present		the fish			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive · do-support			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic
3	have	present	I			my stomach	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	rattle about	present	fish				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	keep	present	fish not said here				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	gerund	Majnun and Majnun				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	want	present	I	Majnun			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot majnun=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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